Officers in Kissimmee were able to save a woman who was doused with gasoline by her husband in a domestic incident Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Officers in Kissimmee were able to save a woman who was doused with gasoline by her husband in a domestic incident Tuesday afternoon, police said.

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Updated: 10:47 PM EDT Apr 21, 2015

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WEBVTT THEY SAVED MY LIFE IF THEY WON'T BE THERE AT THAT POINT I WOULD BE DEAD. NEW TONIGHT THE WOMAN DOUSED IN GASOLINE AND NEARLY DROWN IN HER OWN POOL IS SHARING HER UNBELIEVABLE ORDER DEAL. POLICE SAY HER HUSBAND CARRIED OUT THIS HEINOUS ATTACK. CHRIS HUSH TALKED TO THE VICTIM ABOUT SURVIVING THE ATTACK. I SAW HIM THAT HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME BECAUSE HIS FACE, HE ACT DIFFERENT. AS HARD AS IT MAY BE TO FATHOM, THE VICTIM OF A BRUTAL ATTACK BY HER HUSBAND WAS ABLE TO TO SPEAK TO WESH 2. WE HID HER IDENTITY TO PROTECT HER. HOURS EARLIER ON HER 50th BIRTHDAY HER HUSBAND SURPRISED HER AT HOME THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. MY HUSBAND HAD A KNIFE, HE WANTS TO KILL ME AND I'M IN THE BATHROOM. [ SCREAMING. FOR SEVERAL MINUTES THE VICTIM AND HER DAUGHTER TRIED TO SEAL THE BATHROOM DOOR WITH POWELL TOWELS THAT IS WHEN PAN PLOW SORE RAN KNOW DOUSES HER WITH GASOLINE AND DRAGS HER TO THE POOL. I THROW THE MATCHES SO HE GET ME TO THE POOL AND HE JUMP WITH ME TO THE POOL AND PULL ME DOWN. THEN SHE SAYS EVERYTHING WENT DARK. WHILE HER HUSBAND HELD HER UNDER THE WATER, KISSIMMEE POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE, MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE POOL. POLICE CHIEF LEE MASSEY SAYS INSTEAD OF SHOOGHT THEIR GUN OFFICERS JUMPED INTO THE WATER FREEING THE VICTIM FROM HER ENRAGED HUSBAND, POSSIBLY SECONDS BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE. THEY ALL KNOW WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR HOUSE THEY MAY ENCOUNTER A SITUATION LIKE THIS AND THEY DO IT TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY. SERRANO WAS ARRESTED AND NOW FACES ATTEMPTED MURDER AMONG OTHER CHARGES. AND SERRANO HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE OSCEOLA COUNTY JAIL AND FACES ATTEMPTED ARSON, BATTERY AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND THE VICTIM ALSO ADS THAT FOR HER 50th BIRTHDAY POSSIBLE WHY THE BEST GIFT SHE COULD HAVE TODAY IS TO BE ABLE TO TELL HER STORY SO THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO OTHERS.

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Officers in Kissimmee were able to save a woman who was doused with gasoline by her husband in a domestic incident Tuesday afternoon, police said.